95-771 Data Structure and Algorithms for Information Processing

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DateReading(s)SlidesOutIn
Week 1: Tuesday January 14, Thursday January 16
Main Ch. 1,2


Introduction
Main on Pre and Post Conditions
Basic Big O
Towers
Main on OOP
Project 1 : Singly Linked Lists
Project 1 Javadoc (ObjectNode and SinglyLinkedList) after modifications
Project 1 ObjectNode.java prior to modifications
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Week 2: Tuesday January 21, Thursday January 23
Main Ch. 4

Big Theta Video

Big O at Khan Academy
Big O
Big O (PDF version)
Linked Lists
Ch.4

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Week 3: Tuesday January 28, Thursday January 30
Main Ch. 6,7

N Queens on U-Tube
Stacks/Queues
Main Ch.6,7
Trees
Main Ch.9 Binary Search Trees

Project 1 Due Tuesday at midnight
Week 4: Tuesday February 4, Thursday February 6
Main Ch. 9,10

Red Black Tree Video

B-Tree Video

B+ Tree Video
Heaps and B-Trees
Main on Heaps Ch.10
Notes on 2-3 Trees
Red Black Trees

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Week 5: Tuesday February 11, Thursday February 13
Main Ch. 11,14

BFS

DFS

Floyd Warshall at Wikipedia
Graphs I
Graphs II

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Week 6: Tuesday February 18, Thursday February 20
Main Ch. 11,14

Dijkstra Shortest Path
Graphs III (optional)
Graphs IV (optional)

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Week 7: Tuesday February 25, Thursday February 27 MIDTERM EXAM ON Thursday, Febrary 27
Old Midterm exams

Old Midterm Fall 2011

Midterm Spring 2012

Midterm Fall 2013

Midterm Spring 2014

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Midterm Spring 2015

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Midterm Spring 2016

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Midterm Spring 2017

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Midterm Spring Key 2023

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Midterm Spring Key 2024

Midterm Fall Key 2024
MIDTERM EXAM Review Topics

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Week 8: Tuesday March 11, Thursday March 13
Main Ch. 6,7,12


Searching I
Main on Searching Using Hash Tables Ch.11

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Week 9: Tuesday March 18, Thursday March 20


Sorting demonstrations
Searching II
Lecture Notes
Main Ch.12
Sorting I
Sorting I (PDF)

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Week 10: Tuesday March 25, Thursday March 27



Data Compression Huffman
Huffman explained
Data Compression LZW

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Week 11: Tuesday April 1, Tuesday April 8
Main Chapter 12

Radix sort
Sorting II
Sorting II (PDF)
Radix Sort
Slide Edits
Lecture Notes

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Week 12: Thursday April 10, Tuesday April 15


Finite State Machines

Pushdown Automata

Linear Bound Automata

Turing Machines

Google Doodle Turing Machines
Finite State Machines I
Finite State Machines I (PDF)
Finite State Machines II
Finite State Machines II (PDF)

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Week 13: Thursday April 17, Tuesday April 22


The Chomsky hierarchy

P versus NP problems
Finite State Machines III
Finite State Machines III (PDF)
NP-Complete Languages

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Week 14: Thursday, April 24, FINAL EXAM is During week of April 28 Date is TBA



Review for Final

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Last Update: August 2024
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